coachwise

English

Etymology

From coach +‎ -wise.

Adverb

coachwise (not comparable)

  1. In the manner of a coach (vehicle).
    • c. 1853, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “A Yankee in Canada. Chapter I. Concord to Montreal.”, in A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1866, →OCLC, page 4:
      […] and any day you may see from afar his princely idea borne coachwise along the spacious but yet empty avenues.
    • quoted in 1968, Walter E. Minchinton, Essays in Agrarian History (volume 1, page 170)
      […] yoked coachwise and he that holds the plow drives them with two whip cords fastened to the fore horses and hung by two loopes upon each of his plough handles each of which he useth with great dexterity […]
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